I know, I know, shoot me if you must and I won't argue. I've been really bad with udpates since track season started, but hopefully this'll make you forgive me :)I don't have chapter twenty-two written up yet, so the next updates going to take even longer...but the end is in sight.

So while you must wait, here is another action-packed chapter in the adventures of Harry and Lizzie, wh-hoo!

Disclaimer: Already been over this...

Chapter Twenty-One: Everything or Nothing

It seemed as though ages had passed since Luna and I had been attacked in Ravenclaw common room. Not long after the attack and Luna's amazing pep talk to the rest of the Ravenclaw's, we ran into Harry and Hermione, who were running for their lives from a miniature Death Eater named Draco Malfoy. I remember thinking that he looked similar to his father, but he had a long way to go before he became that cold. I could also tell that this life was not what he had signed up for, and I tried to help him, but all I succeeded in doing was making him even angrier than before.

After I managed to freeze Malfoy, the four of us ran off in search of the diadem, which Harry realized he knew where it was. Apparently, a year or two ago he ran across this room which hide several objects that needed to be hidden, and it was once where he hid a potions textbook. He said he knew exactly where the diadem was, all we needed to do was go and destroy it.

"Harry," I asked breathlessly as we stopped in front of a blank stretch of wall. "Where is the room?" Looking left and right, my glance revealed nothing and I began to worry.

"Its here," He said back, running his fingers along the wall. "It's the Room of Requirement Lizzie, its going to be here."

"Harry," Hermione said nervously. "We don't have enough time." She looked down the hallway where sounds of battle could be heard. Apparently the fight for Hogwarts had spread into the castle itself, which unfortunately involved many innocent lives that didn't need to be involved.

"I know Hermione!" He snapped back and squeezed his eyes shut. "I'm trying…I need to find the place where it's hidden…the place where it's hidden…the place where it's hidden—"

"Harry!" I cried suddenly as I saw a door appear in the stone wall. Mouth hanging open, I stared at it, but then I snapped back to attention when I heard a high-pitched scream echo off the walls.

"Harry you can't!" Hermione cried out. "You have to find it—take Lizzie, Luna and I will go and help them alright?" She looked at him with pleading eyes and threw her arms around him. "Please be careful," She whispered tearfully. When she pulled away, she threw her arms around me. "Take care of him."

I squeezed her back and nodded. "I promise."

And with a slight nod from Luna, the two girls were gone.

"Together," I said quietly as my hand touched the doorknob. Quickly, I opened the heavy oaken door and a musty draft wafted our way, nearly blowing us over with its power. I coughed and spluttered for a second, but regained my composure as both of us walked inside with our wands drawn. "Lumos Maximus," I muttered quietly and my wand-tip ignited, throwing bright flames of light onto what was next to me.

"Fan out," Harry ordered, obviously unperturbed by the massiveness of this room. "You know what it looks like right?"

"Yeah…but have you seen—"

"We don't have time Lizzie."

I nodded shortly, and without further ado the two of us were off in different directions looking for the diadem of knowledge.

The search was long and tiring, and I don't even remember looking through so much junk. Unfortunately, try as I might, I wasn't able to find the blasted Horcrux and I was beginning to feel hopeless. And that's when I heard the first loud bang, followed by the crackling of an ignited fire. My heart must have skipped three beats as I spun around wildly and strained my eyes to see down the long, narrow and dark path I just walked up. And then came a handful of shouts, followed by another loud bang and I saw something flare up in the distance.

"AGUAMENTI!" Someone shouted in distinct male voice.

"HARRY!" I yelled frantically; just because Voldemort couldn't touch him yet didn't mean he was immune to other people's attacks. "Harry where are you!" I started running back down the path I had come and suddenly something exploded over my head, littering me with charred pieces of debris as I fell forward from the shock of the blast.

"LIZZIE!" He shouted back, his voice cutting through the roaring flames around me. "Lizzie where are you!"

I cursed loudly as I realized I was on fire. "AGUAMENTI!" I shrieked in terror, and struggled to push the debris off me. "No, no, NO!" I cried angrily and tried twisting to get out of my predicament, but nothing worked. Feeling furious tears stinging my eyes, I beat the ground with my fist and tried to crawl out, but to no avail; I was stuck.

"REDUCTO!" Someone shouted in a voice I didn't recognize and before I could even comprehend anything, I was blown backwards with the rest of the debris and into a wall of solid material.

I groaned in pain and slid down the wall, not even caring that a Death Eater was probably standing over me. Suddenly, everything snapped into place and despite my aching body, I jerked forward and saw someone with a pale-blonde head running away from me. Malfoy? I thought incredulously. Maybe he is really good after all… But before I had time to finish that train of thought something else hit me like a ton of bricks and all the breath was shoved out of my longs.

"Take that you foul girl!"

"I don't think so," I groaned back and pointed my wand at the Death Eater and shouted, "STUPEFY!" and without warning, the unsuspecting Death Eater was blown backwards and into a wall of trash that dumped on him as soon as he hit the unstable structure.

"Accio Ravenclaw's diadem!" A voice cut through the air, and I suddenly realized it was Harry's.

"HARRY!" I shouted loudly and pushed myself off the ground, which drew a staggering amount of energy from me, but I didn't care, I had to get to him. "HARRY!"

"Lizzie!" Someone else shouted, and when I looked to my left I saw a flash of red. "Lizzie take this to Harry—hurry!" And suddenly Ron was shoving a smooth, curved object into my hand. "GO!"

I took one look at his mangled face and then looked down at the object in my hand and realized what it was. "A basilisk fang?"

"I got it out of the Chamber of Secrets—the basilisk's remains are still in there!" He urged me forward. "Find Harry!" His eyes were wide with horror and I nodded once in appreciation and started running.

"Harry! Harry where are you!" I screamed as loudly as I could, ignoring the jabbing pains along my body. "HARRY!"

"STUPEFY!" He shouted, but I had no idea where he was.

"CRUCIO!"

"PETRIFICUS TOTALUS!"

"NOO!"

"Harry!" I screamed and skidded to a halt when I saw him fighting another Death Eater. And then my heart leapt when I saw what he was holding: Ravenclaw's diadem. "STUPEFY!" I shouted and pointed my wand at the nearest Death Eater and watched my jet of red light take him down.

Harry stopped and looked across the way at me, and then noticed what I had in my hand. "LIZZIE!" He shouted at me.

I ran forward, leaping over everything in my path, but I knew that I wouldn't make it in time. "HARRY!" I screamed and threw the basilisk fang at him, hoping to Merlin he could catch. When I landed on the ground, I pointed my wand at another Death Eater and flicked it, causing a jet of bright blue light to ignite his robes on fire. "DESTROY IT!" I shouted again and watched him catch the basilisk fang.

He dropped to the ground heavily and plunged the fang into the heart of the diadem and suddenly everything went deathly silent.

And then everything became horribly loud as the diadem glowed a sickly shade of green. A long, high pitched wailing encased the room in its deathly embrace.

"HARRY RUN!" I screamed at him, realizing it was about to explode into thousands of magical fragments, but I couldn't reach him and protect him because I was still on the floor, holding my arm and on my knees.

He seemed to get the message and began to back away from the diadem, but it wasn't fast enough. With wide eyes, I watched as the diadem exploded in a hellish fury and the bright green flames licked out to the place where I last saw Harry, but suddenly he was gone.

"HARRY!" I screamed, but then someone was grabbing the back of my outfit and pulling me up. I looked behind me and saw Harry standing there with a serious expression on his face. "What the—" I twisted away from him as we ran and my hand slid to his arm.

"We've got to get out of here—we've got to find Voldemort," Harry panted, looking over his shoulder at me as he pulled me along.

I glanced back and saw bright green flames engulf several random piles of objects in the strange room, and noticed frantically that the fire was getting ever closer to us. "Faster," I shouted over the roaring of flames. "Must—move—faster!" I pushed him hard, causing him to stumble slightly, but I caught him before he actually fell.

"I'm going!" He snapped at me and grabbed my hand. "There!" He shouted at once when he saw the small doorway appear along the wall opposite us.

It was only a few more steps, if we could just—

"Nice try Potter," Someone said in a cold, drawling voice.

Harry immediately stopped and pushed me behind him. "Malfoy," He spat contemptuously and stared at the pale, blonde headed boy walking toward us, twirling his wand casually. "What do you think you're doing? It's no use anymore."

"That's what you think Potter, but you aren't going to win. You can't," He sneered at Harry and his eyes fell on me. "What's that? A piece of muggle trash?"

"Son of a—" I started, and pushed forward angrily, but Harry stopped me with a sharp jab of his elbow into my stomach. Muttering angrily at him, I glowered and gripped my wand tightly. We didn't have time for this little interference, if I could just get my wand under Harry's arm…

"Move Malfoy, it's no use anymore," Harry said tiredly, as if he had just gotten sick of a long, bitter feud. "Voldemort's going down, or I'm going down; you can either help me or leave me, but I'm not letting you try and take me down."

Malfoy, as if not expecting that statement, blinked his eyes several times while gaping, but he eventually regained his haughty demeanor and sneered at Harry again, but the words that came out of his mouth were what nobody expected. "Fine Potter, but if you actually think you're going to win, then you've got sod in your brain."

Harry's eyes flashed at the accusation, but the anger disappeared on his face as soon as he realized what Malfoy had said. "I'm going to remember this and nothing else."

"Like I care Potter."

I lightly shoved Harry forward and soon we were brushing past the blonde haired boy and running toward the door. Glancing back, I thought I saw a brief appearance of a smile on Malfoy's face, but when I blinked it had disappeared.

But maybe people were changing. Maybe things would be alright in the future…for Harry and everyone else of course.

I looked back at Harry, who was now looking at me. "It's everything or nothing," I told him quietly.

"Everything or nothing," He repeated solemnly, and pushed the door open and together we walked out to our fate.

To our destiny.

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